Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:20:55 06/13/03
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On June 13, 2003 at 11:10:13, Michael Vox wrote: >Hello, > >I am solicisting a request that 'Read Posts' be marked somehow, so I can >passover them and only read new posts. This feature exists. Click "Filter Messages" at the top of the page. You can take it upon yourself to note the approximate time you last read CCC, then set the filter to show you only messages in the last 12 hours (or whatever). Combine that with your browser's ability to tell you which posts you've read, and you can do exactly what you want, but it requires the tiniest effort on your part, which I don't think is too much to ask, since ICD provides this wonderful forum completely free of charge. >Certainly, ICD is receiving allot of increased sales from marketing on this >board, so a small upgrade cost may be considered reasonable! Do you know how much it costs to run a popular website? I'm guessing it costs ICD thousands of dollars every month to run CCC and CTF, and I'd be suprised if they broke even from the sales generated from CCC and CTF. If they do come out ahead, then I guess Steve can take everyone to McDonalds, courtesy of the increased sales generated from CCC. >How do others feel about this request ? I think CCC is fine, and I actually prefer it to the cookie-cutter, flashy forums that you see all over the net. Let's also not forget that CCC is very bandwidth friendly, which saves ICD money (bandwidth isn't free you know). If we changed to some flashy forum with colors galor, that uses up extra bandwidth. Not to mention that a large portion of the readers would be confused by the "new look". And someone has to do all of the work of installing the new forum, configuring it, testing it sufficiently, explaining to every member what is going on, moving everyone's account to the new system, etc. Then some people will like the new forum, and many will not (because people in general don't like change). You are asking for a lot more than I think you realize. And what is the gain? A feature that is a niceity? I think that unless there is some major gain involved, the costs outweigh the gains, by far. I think it would be much easier to write a program that would mark each page as read in your browser. It could simply visit every link on the current page. There is probably something like this that already exists somewhere. A simple java script could be written to open up every link on the page in a new window, for instance :)
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